WOODCUTTERS

What does it mean to make art, or bear witness, in a fracturing  world? In this stage adaptation of the Austrian novel Woodcutters, by Thomas Bernhard, actor Adrianne Krstansky performs an acerbic, darkly funny inner monologue in the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse lobby, transformed to resemble a Viennese coffeehouse. There, at an artists’ dinner taking place on the day of a mutual friend’s funeral, she is a disillusioned writer surveying the scene, silently eviscerating the surrounding cultural elite, and wrestling with her own longing for authenticity. A work in progress, this play invites audiences into the theatrical creative process.